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Message #23 received at 32691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian <at> mgsn.dev>
To: Eric Brown <brown <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 32691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32691: OpenMolcas
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:01:36 -0700

Hello Eric,

Eric Brown <brown <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> We’re almost there!  :-)
>>
>> I made small changes (moved comments about the patch at the top of the
>> patch; switch to ‘texlive-union’, which is much smaller than ‘texlive’),
>> leading to the attached patch.
>>
>> It’s all good, except that the file layout really doesn’t match the
>> usual conventions:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Ideally basis_library/ and data/ would go under share/openmolcas, while
>> CONTRIBUTORS.md and LICENSE would go to share/doc/openmolcas.  Also, it
>> would be nice to remove the ‘.exe’ extension.
>>
>> Do you think you could easily fiddle with CMake to fix these and/or
>> report it upstream?  I could apply the patch as is but I think users may
>> not be pleased by this.  WDYT?
>>
>> Thank you for your time, and sorry for the extra round trip!
>
> Hi Ludo',
>
> Thank you again. Indeed, "/" gets littered with some files that out to
> go into share. This has been noted in discussions upstream.
>
> Though we've put a bunch of work into this, I think it would be good to
> pause and see if we can make some of these changes upstream, as you
> suggest.
>
> (Also I need some time to brush up on CMake -- perhaps I can contribute
> some of these changes myself.)
>
> Warm regards,
> Eric

Thanks for all your work on this package.  Did you ever make further
progress on this?  Are you still interested in working on getting
OpenMolcas in Guix?

--
Sarah

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